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ReviewMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR2022

The ArcAB Two-Component System: Function in Metabolism, Redox Control, and Infection.

Aric N Brown, Mark T Anderson, Michael A Bachman, Harry L T Mobley

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Review in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aric N BrownDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Schoolgrid.471406.0, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1455-4736
Mark T AndersonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Schoolgrid.471406.0, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5097-3597
Michael A BachmanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Schoolgrid.471406.0, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2507-6987
Harry L T MobleyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Schoolgrid.471406.0, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9195-7665

Funding

Reciprocal Control of Motility and Adherence in UTIR01AI059722 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PEARSON, MELANIE M. · 2005 to 2024
$7.4M
Fitness of gram-negative pathogens during bacteremiaR01AI134731 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BACHMAN, MICHAEL ABBOTT, MOBLEY, HARRY L. · 2019 to 2022
$2.8M
Genetic variation of the Serratia marcescens capsule polysaccharide locus and its contribution to bloodstream infectionR21AI148767 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ANDERSON, MARK T. · 2020 to 2021
$429k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI059722NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI134731NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI148767
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ArcAB, also known as the Arc system, is a member of the two-component system family of bacterial transcriptional regulators and is composed of sensor kinase ArcB and response regulator ArcA. In this review, we describe the structure and function of these proteins and assess the state of the literature regarding ArcAB as a sensor of oxygen consumption. The bacterial quinone pool is the primary modulator of ArcAB activity, but questions remain for how this regulation occurs. This review highlights the role of quinones and their oxidation state in activating and deactivating ArcB and compares competing models of the regulatory mechanism. The cellular processes linked to ArcAB regulation of central metabolic pathways and potential interactions of the Arc system with other regulatory systems are also reviewed. Recent evidence for the function of ArcAB under aerobic conditions is challenging the long-standing characterization of this system as strictly an anaerobic global regulator, and the support for additional ArcAB functionality in this context is explored. Lastly, ArcAB-controlled cellular processes with relevance to infection are assessed.

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Escherichia coli ProteinsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialOxidation-ReductionTranscription FactorsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsTranscription Factorsfacultative anaerobesglobal regulatory networksmetabolic regulationmetabolismtwo-component regulatory systems

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PMID35442087
PMCPMC9199408

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